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Offline is just online with extreme latency
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency
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Self-Host All the Things?
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My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
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Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee
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Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
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Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide
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Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest
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Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
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Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
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Some people want to run their own servers
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Why might you run your own DNS server?
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Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
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Self hosting is important
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The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
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The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
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Load testing is hard and the tools are not great
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What if we had Local-First Software?
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Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering
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Simple Systems Have Less Downtime
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Scaling to 100k Users
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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
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Taking too much slack out of the rubber band
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How to sleep at night having a cloud service: common architecture do's
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Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs
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The “mail is hard” myth
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Your nines are not my nines
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IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)
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I forgot how to manage a server
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Fixing the Internet for Games
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How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (2017)
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Designing Resilient Systems: Circuit Breakers or Retries?
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Microservices Circuit-Breaker Pattern Implementation: Istio vs. Hystrix
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Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers
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Ways to do load balancing wrong
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The death of transit?
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It's time to reconsider going on-prem
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Infrastructure Mistakes Companies Should Avoid
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So You Wanna Go On-Prem
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Fixing the Internet for Real Time Applications, Part II
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Chaos Engineering Upgraded
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Stack Exchange’s Colocation Move: Lessons Learned
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High Scalability - All Time Favorites
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Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
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Building Highly Reliable Websites For Small Companies
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Architecture Patterns: The Circuit-Breaker
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Litestream – Opensource disaster recovery and continuous replication for SQLite
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Ruby on Rails load testing habits
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The power of two random choices
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No Uptime Hosting (2006)
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